Sleep vs. Snooze — What's the Difference?

Sleep is a naturally recurring state of mind and body, characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, reduced muscle activity and inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and reduced interactions with surroundings. It is distinguished from wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, but more reactive than a coma or disorders of consciousness, with sleep displaying different, active brain patterns.

To take a light nap; doze.

A natural periodic state of rest for the mind and body, in which the eyes usually close and consciousness is completely or partially lost, so that there is a decrease in bodily movement and responsiveness to external stimuli. During sleep the brain in humans and other mammals undergoes a characteristic cycle of brain-wave activity that includes intervals of dreaming.

A brief light sleep.

A period of this form of rest.

(intransitive) To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.

A state of inactivity resembling or suggesting sleep; unconsciousness, dormancy, hibernation, or death.

(transitive) To pause; to postpone for a short while.

A state in which a computer shuts off or reduces power to its peripherals (such as the display or memory) in order to save energy during periods of inactivity.

A brief period of sleep; a nap.

(Botany) The folding together of leaflets or petals at night or in the absence of light.

(informal) The snooze button on an alarm clock.

A crust of dried tears or mucus normally forming around the inner rim of the eye during sleep.

(informal) Something boring.

To be in the state of sleep or to fall asleep.

A short sleep; a nap.

To be in a condition resembling sleep.

To doze; to drowse; to take a short nap; to slumber.

To pass or get rid of by sleeping

A short sleep (usually not in bed)

To provide sleeping accommodations for

Sleep lightly or for a short period of time

(intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.

(transitive) To be slumbering in (a state).

To achieve or make happen by manner of sleep.

To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).

(idiomatic) To earn by sexual favors.

(transitive) To accommodate in beds.

(intransitive) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.

(intransitive) To be dead; to lie in the grave.

(intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.

To wait for a period of time without performing any action.

To place into a state of hibernation.

To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.

To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.

(uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.

An act or instance of sleeping.

A night.

(uncountable) Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).

A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.

The hibernation of animals.

To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.

To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.

To be dead; to lie in the grave.

To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps.

To be slumbering in; - followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.

To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.

A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state.

A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended;

A torpid state resembling sleep

A period of time spent sleeping;

Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb);

Be asleep

Be able to accommodate for sleeping;